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Atlanta lawyer elected to high-ranking ABA post

By Bill Rankin
Aug 13, 2010

Atlanta lawyer Linda Klein has been elected to the second-highest position in the American Bar Association.

At the ABA's annual meeting this week in San Francisco, Klein was elected chair of the House of Delegates, the legal organization's 555-member policy-making body.

Klein, who was the first woman to be elected president of the State Bar of Georgia, is currently the managing shareholder for the Georgia offices of the Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz law firm. In 2004, the ABA presented Klein with the Margaret Brent Achievement Award, given to women who have achieved excellence in the legal profession.

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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.

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